Aimee Sullivan

Several streets surrounding Bo Diddley Plaza were lined with paintings, sculptures, ceramics, textiles and photography on Saturday and Sunday for the 43rd Annual Downtown Festival and Art Show.

Alachua County residents can vote early at Santa Fe College this year. After seeing early voting turnout results at the Millhopper Library in previous years, the Supervisor of Elections decided to open Santa Fe College as a polling site to reduce some of the wait times.

With the weather cooling, Florida's high school and college marching bands are getting a reprieve from recent temperatures that surpassed 90 degrees during rehearsals and game day. Gainesville's high temperatures on football Friday and Saturday will be in the 70s.

Celebration was in the air at this weekend’s LGBTQ Pride festival, but so was a cloud of politics.

The School Board of Alachua County adopted a budget of $612.8 million for fiscal year 2024-2025 and a 6.26 millage rate for this year at a public meeting Wednesday.